Legal Opinion
Claspill v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided July 31, 1990No. 72264PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINS, Judge.
Darrell Claspill appeals from an adverse jury verdict and judgment in a Federal Employers’ Liability Act personal injury action. The question is whether 23 U.S.C. § 409 (1988) prohibits admission in evidence of certain documents created before its effective date, April 2,1987, and if so, whether it violates the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Affirmed.
Darrell Claspill was Missouri Pacific’s engineer at the time of three railroad grade crossing collisions that occurred over a three-month period in 1986 in Barton County and at Adrian and Butler, Missouri.…
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